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Dot tel is so new, it’s difficult to know if anyone in your business or personal circles has one. Fortunately there are many directories out there to help you find like minded individuals of your acquaintance.

Qwista – http://www.qwista.com/eng – it indexes all the DNS entries. It has a mobile version that worked well on the Blackberry. You can choose to search for business or individuals.

DotTelFinder.com – http://www.dottelfinder.com/directory/ – it is an opt in directory that has a basic listing that is free and a premium listing that is $2.55 one time. Dottelfinder aggregates tweets about .tel and also aggregates news coming from Telnic and some prominent .tel blogs (including this one!).

If you want to know how many people use the phone numbers that you publish on your .TEL name, you can subscribe to a service called “remote call forwarded phone number” or “market extension line” AKA “market expansion line”.

Most phone companies offer this service, which gives you a tracking phone number that you put into .tel.

When somebody uses that number, the call is forwarded to your actual line, but call duration and the total number of calls is tracked by the phone company. You then get a report with all the data to demonstrate how your .tel phone line is working.

If your phone company does not provide the service you need, you can also set up a tracking line forwarded to a toll-free number. This should provide you with similar data. While most phone companies will charge for the tracking number service, it’s typically a small fee.

We hope that using these tools will provide you a clearer picture of the volume of calls coming from your .TEL name.

Superbook is the new iPhone address book application that leverages .TEL to connect you with your contacts instantly.

This .TEL specific application will read any of your contacts who have a .TEL name and make them instantly accessible to you. Superbook searches all your contacts and tells you where they are on a map. Contact the closest ones at the touch of a button. Cool features include the ability to sort your contacts by distance to you (do this under “settings”).

Superbook is available off of Apple’s app store, or you can download it/learn more about it at http://superbook.tel/.

Popular phrases and word combinations come to mind. Family names. And surprisingly, lot’s of cool, single words are also still available. After finding out that 171,476 words are currently in use according to the Oxford English Dictionary , we figured plenty of good ones must be left.

A colleague and I rambled off 25 words each in rapid succession, then entered them into a .TEL domain search and got the following results (as of 2:21 pm PST on Friday, May 22nd):

Crows.tel Available
Punch.tel Taken Whois | Make Offer
Cardboard.tel Taken Whois | Make OfferFixate.tel Available Impressive.tel Taken Whois | Make OfferRationale.tel Available Vitality.tel Taken Whois | Make Offer
Operational.tel Taken Whois | Make Offer
Glamorous.tel Taken Whois | Make OfferImpossibility.tel Available
Fabricate.tel Available Sleuth.tel Taken Whois | Make Offer
Sneakers.tel Taken Whois | Make Offer
Ciao.tel Taken Whois | Make OfferArriba.tel Available Bonbons.tel Taken Whois | Make OfferFolksong.tel Available
Immediacy.tel Available Cuddles.tel Taken Whois | Make Offer
Template.tel Taken Whois | Make Offer
Tackle.tel Taken Whois | Make OfferWandering.tel Available
Stinger.tel Available Reaction.tel Taken Whois | Make OfferSwollen.tel Available
Irritant.tel AvailableRefreshing.tel Taken
Breezy.tel Available
Tender.tel Taken Whois | Make Offer
Touching.tel Taken Whois | Make OfferEngaging.tel Available
Decisive.tel Available
Burnt.tel Available Limerick.tel Taken Whois | Make OfferSiamese.tel Available Ocean.tel Taken Whois | Make Offer
Trapeze.tel Taken Whois | Make Offer
Parachute.tel Taken Whois | Make OfferOlivertwist.tel Available Artisan.tel Taken Whois | Make OfferAmple.tel AvailableTaxonomy.tel Available

We’ve spent a bit of time over the past few months discussing industries and verticals we believe .tel could have a big impact on. One of these is real estate.

Attention all realtors, while I paint you a picture …

Shirley and Bill are in the market to buy a house. On their Sunday drive they stumble upon a house that appeals to them.

Sadly, by the time they get home – after picking up groceries, going through the car wash and visiting aunt Mable – they have forgotten the address of the house for sale and the real estate agency it is listed with.

Dear realtors – if you all would break down and get yourname.tel and plop it on your “for sale” signs, people like Shirley and Bill would actually stand a chance at getting in touch with you.

Now there is no guarantee that a handy dandy .tel name will induce Shirley and Bill to purchase the house, but it probably help them contact you for more information. And remember your name. And refer you to their friends.

Perhaps the best thing about .tel for realtors, and other relationship based professions (hairdressers, massage therapists and car salespeople come to mind) is that you can move, change employers, open up your own business and still be found 5 years later because your .tel remains the same.

That’s the great thing about tel – the game may change but the name remains the same.